Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Lackington, Allen, & Company, 1807 - 432 pages |
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Page 100 - ascended his seat under the rostrum of the Moderator With grave Aspect he rose, and in his rising seem'd A pillar of strength; deep in his front engraven Deliberation sate—sage he stood With Atlantean shoulders
Page 61 - torment—? Heaven is here Where Juliet lives, and each unworthy thing Lives here in heaven and may look on her, But Romeo may not: more validity, More honourable state, more
Page 361 - the most admiration. Some have called him a savage; they were only so far right in the resemblance, as that, like the savage, he never came into suspicious company without his spear in his hand and his bow and quiver at his back. In quickness of intellect few ever equalled
Page 355 - in bed all day, and with the most active resolutions possible been the most indolent mortal living. He was a good man by nature, a great man by genius, we are now to enquire what he was by compulsion. Johnson's first style was naturally energetic, his middle style was turgid to a
Page 409 - successfully decisive all the world knows. My friend Sir Charles Douglas, captain of the fleet, confessed to me that he himself had been adverse to the experiment, and in discussing it with the admiral had stated his objections; to these he got no other answer but that " his " counsel was not called for; he required
Page 337 - his thoughts were original, and were apt to have a very whimsical affinity to the paradox in them: he wrote verses upon dancing* and prose upon the origin of evil, yet he was a very indifferent metaphysician and a worse dancer; ill nature and personality, with the
Page 368 - to be deputed to that office. I planted him in an upper box, pretty nearly over the stage, in full view of the pit and galleries, and perfectly well situated to give the echo all its play through the hollows and recesses of the theatre. The success of our manoeuvres was complete. All eyes were upon Johnson, who sate in a front
Page 151 - Honest men Are the soft easy cushions, on which knaves Repose and fatten— But there are more than these—Vain men will have their flatterers, rich men their followers, and powerful men their
Page 10 - amusement. I do not say that his good-nature always gained its object, as the pictures which his books generally supplied me with were anatomical drawings of dissected bodies, very little calculated to communicate delight; but he had nothing better to produce; and surely such an effort on his part, however unsuccessful,
Page 334 - his mind impelled them they would go, and before his tongue could give the text, his countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. I always studied the assortment of the characters, who honoured me with their company, so as never to bring